Books from John Donald

  • My Ain Folk: An Easy Guide to Scottish Family History
    By Graham S. Holton, Jack Winch

    ... such as Eyre - Todd's Who's who in Glasgow in 1909 , or connected with a ... A good deal of the information mentioned here had already come to light ...

  • Delving Ever Deeper: The Ecton Mines Through Time
    By John Barnatt, Peak District National Park Authority

    Delving Ever Deeper: The Ecton Mines Through Time

  • AS Sociology
    By David Bown, Janis Griffiths

    AS Sociology

  • Readings 1850 to the Present
    By Christopher A. Whatley, Anthony Cooke, Ian Donnachie

    Ian Donnachie Anthony Cooke, Ann Macsween, Christopher A. Whatley ... advantage of the General Police Act to levy an assessment in 1835 , but the Municipal Corporations Commissioners doubted whether the inhabitants would do so.28 Their ...

  • Find Momo: A Photography Book
    By Andrew Knapp

    Readers are provided with one hundred photographs of landscapes, houses, bridges and other scenes and asked to find the border collie, Momo.

  • History of Inverness
    By William McAllister, Bill McAllister

    History of Inverness

  • Bledsoe: A Poem
    By William Wright

    The book focuses much on landscape and on Bledsoe's complex psychology and perceptions of the world, specifically as they apply to culture, family, religion, and identity.

  • Strathclyde and the Anglo-Saxons in the Viking Age
    By T. J. Clarkson

    Analyses the political relationships between the Clyde Britons and their Anglo-Saxon neighbours; explains how the kingdom of Strathclyde, or Cumbria, became one of the great powers of the time; describes the origins of the English county of ...

  • Scotland in the Age of the French Revolution
    By Bob Harris

    Despite a profusion of recent work on Irish and English politics in the era of the French Revolution, Scotland in this period remains little studied and has thus barely featured...

  • Loch Lomond and the Trossachs in History and Legend
    By Philip John Greer Ransom

    The beautiful region which contains Loch Lomond and the Trossachs has long been a magnet for visitors. This text contains the stories of the people who came to it, why...

  • Finding Jennifer Jones
    By Anne Cassidy

    Kate Rickman seems a perfectly normal nineteen-year-old, but in reality her life is a complex series of lies, created to hide her identity as infamous criminal Jennifer Jones.

  • Militant Workers: Labour and Class Conflict on the Clyde, 1900-1950 : Essays in Honour of Harry McShane
    By Robert Duncan, Arthur McIvor

    Militant Workers: Labour and Class Conflict on the Clyde, 1900-1950 : Essays in Honour of Harry McShane

  • Scotland and England 1286–1815
    By Roger A. Mason

    This book recognises the importance of viewing the national histories of Scotland and England in a wider British context, and shows how rewarding this field of study is.

  • Máel Coluim III, 'Canmore': An Eleventh-Century Scottish King
    By Neil McGuigan

    (eds), An Eleventh-Century Anglo- Saxon Illustrated Miscellany (Copenhagen, 1983), 79–87 McLeod, W., Divided Gaels: Gaelic ... 1989) Morris, C. J., Marriage and Murder in Eleventh-Century Northumbria: A Study of 'De Obsessione Dunelmi', ...

  • Scottish Fairy Belief
    By Lizanne Henderson

    This book, the first modern study of the subject, examines the history and nature of fairy belief, the major themes and motifs, the demonizing attack upon the tradition, and the attempted reinstatement of the reality of fairies at the end ...

  • Fantastical Imaginations: The Supernatural in Scottish History and Culture
    By Lizanne Henderson

    In Scotland the subject of the supernatural has been largely ignored by mainstream historians and academics, who considered it to be irrelevant or trivial. This collection of essays, by some...

  • Gigantosaurus
    By Jonny Duddle

    All young dinosaurs are warned about the scary Gigantosaurus so Bonehead volunteers to be the dino-kids lookout.

  • Image and Identity: Making and Re-making of Scotland Through the Ages
    By Dauvit Broun

    This volume looks at the way that perceptions of Scottish identity have changed through the centuries, from early medieval to modern times. _The idea of Scotland as a single country, corresponding to the realm of the king of Scots, and of ...

  • The Soul Millionaire - True Wealth Is Within Your Reach
    By David J. Scarlett

    This book is a fictional account of the rags-to-riches story - riches that are not confined to money alone, and that can only be defined as 'True Wealth'.

  • The Lordship of Galloway
    By Richard D. Oram, Richard Oram

    In viewing Galloway from the wider context of the northern British mainland, Irish Sea and wider Hebridean zone, it has been possible to explore the dynamics of state-building, dynastic interactions,...